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Begin your hike in Cannon Beach and enjoy clifftop views and ocean breezes on your way to your campsite near a WWII bunker and a view of the Tilamook Lighthouse. On day two, hike up and over Tilamook Head and finish your hike in Seaside.

Come in from the winter chill for some real chills at East Burn every Sunday! Enjoy delicious daily food specials + happy hour from 3-6 p.m. At 9 p.m., watch a very popular show about zombies on the big screen!

Hello Portland! The weekend is here and we’ve got loads of yummy chocolate just waiting to be sampled at the Portland ChocolateFest. Funny man John Caparulo is in town and Tramps will be performing their physical comedy at at Kelly’s Olympian. Fertile Ground starts tonight and brings 75+ acts to area venues over the next […]

The weekend is here and so is winter! Although snow remains to be seen, we’ve got plenty of ways to have fun this weekend! The holidays officially start with the arrival of Portland’s Tree on Friday. Let rum take off the chill at the Swashbuckler’s Ball and explore your human potential at Umpqua’s interactive Exhibit Growth Art Installation. There are only two more Radical 80s Dance Cruises left for 2014, including Saturdays. Get a head start on your holiday shopping at Portland Saturday Market!

The weekend is here! It’s also First Thursday, which means dozens of gallery openings including an urban art installation at Pop PDX Gallery! Film lovers have plenty of options this weekend including the Portland German Film Festival and Mt. Hood Independent Film Festival + Fans of Animation will love OMSI’s Animation Film Festival. The holiday shopping season has started it’s never to0 early to find that perfect gift.

If you’re thinking of going to grad school in the next year or two, the FREE Portland Idealist Grad Fair is for you. At the fair, you’ll meet representatives from over 60 local, national, and international universities offering graduate degrees in education, international affairs, nonprofit management, public health, and social work, among many other civic-minded programs.

Halloween weekend is finally here and Portland really knows how to celebrate! Check our our HUGE list of Halloween Events and Scary happenings to fill your weekend with dancing, spirits and just plain spooky stuff! Recover into Saturday with the Portland Spirit Gorge Cruise or the WineUp Day of the Dead Hangover Celebration. Don’t miss Oregon’s big game vs Stanford and Now’s the best time to get your Season Passes for Mt. Hood Meadows! Portland’s Largest Garage Sale is at Portland Expo and comedy masters Sarah Colonna & Anthony Jeselnik are in town, too!

Purchase your 2014-15 Season Pass and head up the mountain for our Winter Kick Off celebration! We are holding the biggest sale of the season and Season Passholders save up to an additional 20%. Make sure you purchase your pass before November 2nd in order to receive the best price on your 2014-15 Season Pass!

Slip into your costume and head on out to the farm this All Hallows Eve for festive masquerade ball near a spooky corn maze. Watch the fire dancers and hoopers as they sparkle in the moonlight, dance to one of the 5 bands, catch a scary movie, wander through the corn maze, or just gather around one of the campfires with your favorite trickster.

Grafletics is a Portland, Oregon based streetwear brand founded on the love of art, sports, and The City of Roses. The collection explores the intersection of this crossroad and exercises an aesthetic of bold design, originality, and premium quality on every item it produces.

Another crafty Night of the Living Ales is upon us this Halloween October 31st featuring the Wanderlust Circus and DJ Pippin, Costume Contests, a rare craft beer selection and a full liquor bar sponsored by Jim Beam. From 6pm to Midnight at 7th & E. Burnside under warm covered tents expect a variety of performances:

Our 4th annual “Day of the Dead” (Dia de los Muertos) celebration in Portland is scheduled for Sunday, November 2. It will start with a traditional procession led by music through the streets of Portland. Participants will be dressed in black and have painted faces, “como esceletos catrinas y catrinos.”

The musical that started a 40-year nonstop cultural phenomenon is back where it is meant to be seen – live on stage! The Rocky Horror Show is a sexy, saucy, tongue-in-cheek musical that is truly iconic with its irresistible hum-along score and cast of quirky characters.

As practitioners of a “non-traditional” interpretation of afrobeat for more than a decade, Chicago Afrobeat Project frequently reinvents itself within a genre first pioneered by Fela Kuti. The group’s latest release Nyash Up!” shows the group redefining their signature version of afrobeat by incorporating elements of hip-hop, orchestra-like musical arrangement, and stylistic explorations of rock, jazz and funk.

Mark Lanegan is almost 50. He is also about to release a new album, titled Phantom Radio. It will be the ninth under his own name, but combine it with the collaborative albums he’s made, be it with Isobel Campbell, or Duke Garwood, or as 50 per cent of the Gutter Twins (his ongoing partnership with Greg Dulli), or his legendary first band the Screaming Trees, then the total is nearer 20.

Watch your back! Zombies will take over the city this weekend for the Portland Zombie Walk & World Wide Thrill The World Dance. Although Halloween is next week, tons of parties are taking place this week including Rock the Boat Halloween Dance Party, Halloween Thriller VI Dance, & Bollywood Horror! Find some great deals at America’s Largest Antiques and Collectibles & the Hip Chicks Do Wine Portland Harvest Party. And one of Portland’s favorite runs, Run Like Hell, is Sunday!

In addition to the shanghaiers and con men, always on the prowl, saloons, gambling halls and bordellos also thrived in “Whitechapel,” “The North End,” or Old Town, as we know it today. Some of these storied establishments have come and gone, but others have survived, and many say that Portland, or “Strip City,” still has that vulgar and rugged reputation to this day.